Digital First Media editors’ description of the impediments to “getting the job done,” summed up in a word cloud (via A Lot Still To Do | Digital First)

Google made $37.9 billion in 2011; Newspapers made $24 billion in advertising and about $34 billion overall.

Chart: Newspaper ad revenues fall to 60-year low in 2011 (via CARPE DIEM)

Dilbert, on news paywalls (via Dilbert comic strip archive)

From the Scottish Sun:

MUM-to-be Ann Curran’s pregnancy has left her with a bizarre craving for a taste of her local NEWSPAPER.

She can’t go a day without munching on the Dundee Evening Telegraph.

Ann, 35 — who is expecting her fourth child — even stashes shredded copies in her handbag for emergency snacks. And she insists the publication is the only newsprint with the proper flavour. She said: “I can’t help it.

“I could be sitting in the bingo hall and I’ll start ripping out pages of the newspaper.

“All the people look at me going, ‘What is she doing?’.

“I tear the white bits off the edges of the pages and keep them in a bag so I can eat them while I’m shopping.”

Nice use of a comma in a headline, USA Today. (h/t Mignon Fogarty)

News websites run more house ads than any one category of paid ads - over 1 in 5 (via Project for Excellence in Journalism)

Clay Shirky tells NPR how online paywalls are changing journalism